Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lang Lang (Chinese: pinyin: Lng Lng) (born June 14, 1982 in Shenyang, Liaoning, China) is a Chinese concert pianist. Lang Lang was born in Shenyang, China, and he has Manchu ancestry. When he was only two years old, he saw the Tom and Jerry episode The Cat Concerto which features the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt. According to Lang Lang, this first contact with Western music is what motivated him to learn piano. He began lessons with Professor Zhu Ya-Fen at age three. At the age of five, Lang won first place at the Shenyang Piano Competition and performed his first public recital. When he was nine years old, Lang Lang neared his audition for Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music, and, having difficulties with his lessons, was expelled from his piano tutor's studio for lack of talent. His music teacher at his state school noticed Lang Lang's sadness, and decided to comfort him by playing a record of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K. 330; she asked him to play along with the slow movement. This reminded Lang of his love of the instrument. "Playing the K. 330 brought me hope again," recalled Lang. Lang was later admitted into the conservatory under the study of Professor Zhao Ping-Guo. In 1993, Lang won the Xing Hai Cup Piano Competition in Beijing and was awarded first prize for outstanding artistic performance at the fourth International Competition for Young Pianists in Ettlingen, Germany, the next year. In 1995, at 13 years of age, he played the Op. 10 and Op. 25 tudes by Chopin at the Beijing Concert Hall and, in the same year, won first place at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in Japan, playing Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert broadcas... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1218430We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Immigrants to Hong Kong: People with Acquired Residency of Hong Kong, Lang Lang, Zhou Xun, Tang Wei, Li Yundi, Liu Xuan, Mary Jean Reimer. To get started finding Immigrants to Hong Kong: People with Acquired Residency of Hong Kong, Lang Lang, Zhou Xun, Tang Wei, Li Yundi, Liu Xuan, Mary Jean Reimer, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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40
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1158128738
Immigrants to Hong Kong: People with Acquired Residency of Hong Kong, Lang Lang, Zhou Xun, Tang Wei, Li Yundi, Liu Xuan, Mary Jean Reimer
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lang Lang (Chinese: pinyin: Lng Lng) (born June 14, 1982 in Shenyang, Liaoning, China) is a Chinese concert pianist. Lang Lang was born in Shenyang, China, and he has Manchu ancestry. When he was only two years old, he saw the Tom and Jerry episode The Cat Concerto which features the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt. According to Lang Lang, this first contact with Western music is what motivated him to learn piano. He began lessons with Professor Zhu Ya-Fen at age three. At the age of five, Lang won first place at the Shenyang Piano Competition and performed his first public recital. When he was nine years old, Lang Lang neared his audition for Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music, and, having difficulties with his lessons, was expelled from his piano tutor's studio for lack of talent. His music teacher at his state school noticed Lang Lang's sadness, and decided to comfort him by playing a record of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K. 330; she asked him to play along with the slow movement. This reminded Lang of his love of the instrument. "Playing the K. 330 brought me hope again," recalled Lang. Lang was later admitted into the conservatory under the study of Professor Zhao Ping-Guo. In 1993, Lang won the Xing Hai Cup Piano Competition in Beijing and was awarded first prize for outstanding artistic performance at the fourth International Competition for Young Pianists in Ettlingen, Germany, the next year. In 1995, at 13 years of age, he played the Op. 10 and Op. 25 tudes by Chopin at the Beijing Concert Hall and, in the same year, won first place at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in Japan, playing Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert broadcas... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1218430We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Immigrants to Hong Kong: People with Acquired Residency of Hong Kong, Lang Lang, Zhou Xun, Tang Wei, Li Yundi, Liu Xuan, Mary Jean Reimer. To get started finding Immigrants to Hong Kong: People with Acquired Residency of Hong Kong, Lang Lang, Zhou Xun, Tang Wei, Li Yundi, Liu Xuan, Mary Jean Reimer, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.